That's right! It's back! I'm back! I really hope I didn't keep my nearly zero followers waiting too long! How long has it been exactly? Five years and five months? Well like my bio promised, here comes the info.
Just a few things that have happened since August 18th, 2017:
- I started an internship with Boeing Houston working for NASA's International Space Station Program. I interned as a EE Tech in a test lab environment.
- I like electronics so I move to the hardware team (still an intern)
- I graduate from the University of Houston in the winter of 2018 (magna cum laude)
- I'm with Boeing full-time following graduation (I'm dangerous now!)
- I get engaged
- I get married
- I move to the Electromagnetic Effects (EME) team because there's lots of cool electrophysics, EM waves, and even some RF stuff (that's all kind of analog-ish right?)
- I start my EE Master's program with Johns Hopkins University
- My wife and I are expecting
- Pandemic/Covid-19 lockdowns...
- I buy a car
- My daughter is born (a pandemic baby)
- My daughter is a newborn and requires LOTS of attention, effort, and energy...apparently (I love almost every moment!)
- I buy a house (and move into it)
- Grad studies continue, my daughter grows, my house does house things, I enjoy life, and I feel accomplished
- End of the year 2022, I get an itch to resurrect my home electronics hobby. Apparently, I really do enjoy electronics
- Here I am!
TLDR; life happened. Yet, I've returned again and plan to continue posting to the Waveworks Laboratory blog. Understanding that life can get very busy, my posting may be infrequent. In fact, I would expect it. However infrequent though, I would like to keep it alive.
After all of this time, I still am very interested in analog/mixed-signal design. However, through my current position as an EME engineer and my RF heavy graduate studies, I've also really become interested in RF electronic design.
I've discovered numerous open-source software programs that I'm excited to start using, and I believe that they will boost my analog/mixed-signal/RF design skills to the next level with practice. I'm very happy to be back!
Also, I've been dabbling in some computer programming to keep that knowledge fresh as well. I may post some coding content. Although, I'm not an expert coder...we'll see!
